Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Grand Theft Relic

Question: Hermes is known to like to steal things. What do you think he'd have handy from his pilfering on any given day that would be interesting, infuriating or a possible plot seed? You can apply the same question to any interesting gods known to steal.

This is a weird question. It's like a sideways version of the classic "who would win in a fight" question we get now and then, because it's a theoretical question about stuff that you could do in a game, but not that is actually going on in mythology. The answer could be literally anything; Hermes is the god of thieves and has Ultimate Attributes that make him able to steal from practically anybody. He could have anything in his closet. He might have any plan that involves stealing an important relic, or he might be fencing stolen things for others, or his Sanctum might look like an episode of Hoarders with all the random crap he's accumulated. Or he might not steal anything particularly interesting or important, because Mystery exists and unless he has a really great reason to take something it just may not be worth the hassle of people getting pissed off at him when they find out. I mean, he got out of that thing with Apollo intact, but that kind of thing's tiring..

So really, the answer is "Whatever your story needs him to have". There's really no way to guess what he should or might have because that depends completely on what he's doing in any given story. The same goes for the other famous gods who sometimes turn thief - Eshu, Loki, Quetzalcoatl, Stribog and so on. They have whatever they might have stolen to further whatever plot they're in right now. Without knowing what circumstances they're operating under, you might as well ask what clothes they'll be wearing next Tuesday. We don't freaking know.

1 comment:

  1. So, what clothes do you think Hermes would be wearing on any given Tuesday?

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